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1) Secret empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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In many parts of the world, the children of powerful political figures go into business and profit handsomely, not necessarily because they are good at it, but because people want to curry favor with their influential parents. This is a relatively new phenomenon in the U.S.; but for relatives of some prominent political families, we may already be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. "Secret Empires" identifies public servants who cannot...
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Pub. Date
2012
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"What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Merriman goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Merriman years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor...
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2000
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1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Expert fighters must band together in an ultimate martial arts showdown when Southern China's High Officers begin smuggling opium over the border, and endangering the lives of the local villagers. With no one able to protect them and an Emperor who does not honor them, the people turn to the Master Fighters. These masters battle the evil officers and bring justice to the land.
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Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
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AMC, a division of Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2003, 1941-1931
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2 DVDs (318 min.) : b & w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Fighting caravans: An outlaw convinces a wagon-trail girl to pose as his wife. True romance develops as they head west.
A farewell to arms: Catherine Barkley and Lt. Frederic Henry meet on the Italian front during World War I and fall in love.
Meet John Doe: A tramp is hoaxed into protesting against existing social evils as a newspaper circulation stunt. He becomes a national hero, and discovers the plot to use him.
Stolen jools: Norma Shearer's...
6) Thunderhead
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Series
Arc of a scythe volume 2
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Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
7) The Batman
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Batman must investigate Gotham City's hidden political corruption when the Riddler begins murdering key political figures.
8) Submission
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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246 pages ; 22 cm
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In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence. And he is not alone. As the...
9) Walking tall
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Rhino Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the true story of a Tennessee sheriff who fought corruption in his county.
10) Eclipse
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Pub. Date
2009
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The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
11) Denial
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
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228 pages ; 22 cm
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In 2052, when climate change has devastated much of the world and former fossil fuel executives have been tried for crimes against the environment, a Pacific Northwest journalist makes contact with a CEO fugitive and strikes up an unlikely friendship.
12) Rough justice
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Carl Burns novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2015.
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251 pages ; 23 cm.
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"After ten years' absence and a spell in prison, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown of Rose City to offer support to his estranged daughter Kate, currently one of four witnesses testifying against former Mayor Joseph Sanderson III, who stands accused of multiple counts of underage rape. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with his former sister-in-law Frances his only ally, he finds himself incurring the wrath of...
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
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6 DVDs (ca. 956 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney, she continues to redefine and rediscover the woman she...
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First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
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280 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
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Takes readers behind the scenes--from the sweaty cubicles where senators dial corporate CEOs for dollars, to lavish retreats where billionaires boost their favored candidates, to the map rooms where lawmakers scheme to handpick their voters. It highlights the heroic efforts of those unrigging the system to return power to We the People --Adapted from back cover.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
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396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption"--Amazon.com.
A reaHife political thriller about an American-born financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the people responsible in the Kremlin. Bill Browder started out his...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
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vii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant work provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the same forces that produced the Trump presidency: spreading...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 13
Pub. Date
c2009
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In this 13th Reacher novel, the former army MP confronts a possible suicide bomber on a nearly deserted Manhattan subway car--a confrontation that will lead him back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and forward to the war on terrorism. It turns out that Susan Mark's life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, and Afghanistan ... from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate to a beautiful young...
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